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Compare 1577 edition: 1 The citizens of London were there in great ar|raie, bearing afore hir in solemne wise, thrée hundred and thréescore cups of gold and siluer, in token that they ought to wait vpon hir cup. The archbishop of Canturburie (according to his dutie) crowned hir, the bishop of London assisting him as his deacon. The earle of Chester bare the sword of saint Edward before the king,The earle of Chester. in token that he was earle of the palace, and had authoritie to correct the king, if he should see him to swarue from the limits of iustice, his constable of Chester attended vpon him,The consta|ble of Chester. The earle of Penbroke. and re|mooued where the presse was thicke, with his rod or warder. The earle of Penbroke high Marshall bare the rod before the king, and made roome before him, both in the church and in the hall, placing euerie man, and ordering the seruice at the table. The wardens of the cinque ports bare a canopie ouer the king,

The wardẽs of the cinque ports.

The earle of Leicester.

Erle Warren.

sup|ported with foure speares.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 The earle of Leicester held the bason when they washed. The earle of Warren, in the place of the erle of Arundell, bicause he was vnder age, attended on the kings cup. M. Michaell Bellet was Butler by office. The earle of Hereford exercised the roome of high Marshall in the kings house. The lord William de Beauchampe was almoner.

The earle of Hereford.

Lord William Beauchampe The citizens of London.

The citizens of Winchester.

The cheefe iustice of the forrests on the right hand of the king remoo|ued the dishes on the table, though at the first he was staied by some allegation made to the contrarie. The citizens of London serued out wine to euerie one in great plentie. The citizens of Winchester had ouersight of the kitchin and larderie. And so euerie person (according to his dutie) exercised his roome: and bicause no trouble should arise, manie things were suffered, which vpon further aduise taken therin were reformed. The chancellor and all other ordinarie of|ficers EEBO page image 220 kept their place. The feast was plentifull, so that nothing wanted that could be wished. Moreo|uer, in Tuthill field roiall iustes were holden by the space of eight daies togither. And soone after the king called a parlement at London,A parlement at London. Polydor. where manie things were enacted for the good gouernment of the realme, and therewith the king demanded a subsidie.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 Strange sights. Matth. Paris. ¶ About the same time woonderfull strange sights were séene. In the northparts of England, not farre from the abbie of Ro [...]h o [...] Rupie, there appeared com|ming foorth of the earth companies of armed men [...] horssebacke, with speare, shield, sword, and baners dis|plaied, in sundrie formes and shapes, riding in order of bat [...]ell, and incountering togither: and this sight was seene sundrie daies ech after other. Sometime they séemed to ioine as it had béene in battell, and fought sore; and sometime they appeared to iust and breake staues, as it had béene at some triumphant iusts of tornie. The people of the countrie beheld them a farre off, with great woonder: for the thing shewed so liuelie, that now and then they might see them come with their emptie horsses sore wounded and hurt: and then men likewise mangled and blée|ding, that pitie it was to see them. And that which sée|med more strange and to be most maruelled at, the prints of their féet appeared in the ground, and the grasse troden downe in places where they had beene séene. The like sight was also séene more apparent|lie in Ireland, and in the parts thereabout.

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